After years of record punctuality and investment, Greater Anglia enters public ownership today, having being named Rail Operator of the Year just days ago. Can public ownership match that success? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds Voters recoil at Farage’s fossil fuel funding. Via @desmog.com @writesbright.bsky.social

How diversity of faith happened slowly in Tullamore, Ireland, with the Jehovah’s Witness community being the pioneers northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/cu...

Lancashire County Council has insisted that the futures of 10 elderly care facilities have not yet been decided northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

* Badenoch puts a brave face on Tory oblivion * Reform faces scrutiny over Russian “friends” * Greens, ignored by the BBC * Labour Deputy race could split the party Read the latest from Pecksniff’s Diary @eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

Six of the best: Yorkshire’s cultural highlights In proud celebration of Yorkshire’s cultural heritage, we reach the grand finale of our current series By Ian Richardson @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Sally Wainwright’s latest tv series is an uncompromising celebration of women in all their messy, middle-aged glory By Su O'Brien

Norfolk’s coast is crumbling. As erosion accelerates, local authorities face impossible choices: protect a few homes short-term at great cost, or accept the sea’s advance.

After years of record punctuality and investment, Greater Anglia enters public ownership today, having being named Rail Operator of the Year just days ago. Can public ownership match that success? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Political journalists didn’t set out to become clients of power – they just slipped into it. Half-truths, soft questions and silence bought with access. Read this analysis on how deference has turned to complicity ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @peterthurlow.bsky.social

The Lincolnshire Fens desperately need new flood defences The iconic landscape of the Fens faces an uncertain future unless funding is urgently secured to protect them @cliftop.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

British journalism has been through a shameful era – bending the knee to Downing Street. Can it ever recover its dignity? Peter Thurlow wonders.

Making a mockery of the law: judicial treatment of non-volent direct action Judicial refusal to allow people to say why they are protesting is both illegal and immoral westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

✍️ Six of the best: Yorkshire’s cultural highlights In proud celebration of Yorkshire’s cultural heritage, we reach the grand finale of our current series By Ian Richardson @ricojosh.bsky.social

Greater Anglia is renationalised: “The first service in public ownership will be the 4.10am Stansted Express from London Liverpool Street on Sunday morning.”

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her 15-year-old suicidal daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’ northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

She was just number 46 in foster care, and now Nichola Anne fights to change people's perceptions of children in care northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/hu...

* Badenoch puts a brave face on Tory oblivion * Reform faces scrutiny over Russian “friends” * Greens, ignored by the BBC * Labour Deputy race could split the party Read the latest from Pecksniff’s Diary @eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

Great news..... Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far @eastangliabylines.co.uk @carbonbrief.org

The death of truth and accuracy in the mainstream media Politicians and the media are distorting the truth; how can we avoid being duped? @garygilligan.bsky.social

Reform UK intends to withdraw our human rights They want us to join Russia and Belarus as the only European states not signed up to the ECHR @janiceheppenstall.bsky.social @sussexbylines.co.uk

If they are to have any hope of achieving a lasting peace, there must be a fundamental recognition that all 14 million or so Arab and Jewish people in the region have an equal right to live full and fruitful lives in peace

When history speaks, it’s often too late. The story of Palestine and Israel is filled with lessons the world chose not to hear. Here’s a reminder ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

"The Conservative Party which has been the dominant thread in British politics for nearly two hundred years is no more. This week the One Nation caucus was dissolved." Read this and other wry political observations in this week’s Pecksniff’s Diary. @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

Rivers and Hills is a new mural celebrating Sheffield’s natural landscape – and it comes with a digital twist By Yorkshire Bylines

When history speaks, it’s often too late. The story of Palestine and Israel is filled with lessons the world chose not to hear. Here’s a reminder ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Gibb it a rest! Nick Gibb’s Reforming Lessons aims to defend his ministerial legacy, but instead reads like a desperate attempt to rewrite England’s education failures By Joe Hanley @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

The first phase of a ceasefire deal brings fragile hope to Gaza. Jacob Ecclestone looks back at the warnings from history that might still help guide peace.

Profiteers will cost the NHS an arm and a leg The NHS, born in 1948 alongside me, has saved millions - yet today both major parties bleed it dry, trading care for corporate profit northeastbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Blending roots: culture and belonging in the North East “I call myself a Nigeordian. That reflects my dual Nigerian and Geordie heritage” northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/blen...

Is Oxford’s political bubble deflating? An examination of the recent political shifts in Oxford city, and of how Labour is losing its grip on a historical stronghold westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/is-...

Should museums and galleries remain free for all, or should they charge people to see the displays on offer? northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/cu...

The Stockton and Darlington turns 200 as we look at the history of locomotion, waggonway, and the new era of privatisation. | Richard Styles

Conservative shadow Chancellor, Mel Stride’s plan isn’t just cruel – it’s politically stupid. Slash £47 billion in another promised round of austerity and you hand votes straight to Reform UK. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Pride in Place funds breathe new life into North Warwickshire Local MPs and Council Leader hail £1.5mn Pride in Place funding for Nuneaton and Bedworth @racheltaylormp.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

Zack Polanski, "The four wealthiest people in this country have more wealth than 20 million people" "Inequality in our society is absolutely huge" "We need to be taxing the super rich"

Stockton: rising numbers of children needing help in schools School leaders have been told of rising numbers of children needing more help at school, leading to a predicted £34mn overspend in the next three years if nothing is done northeastbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Terrorism doesn’t work States and individuals who kill the innocent will reap the opposite of what they wanted By Andy Brown @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @andybrown1951.bsky.social

✍️ Gibb it a rest! Nick Gibb’s Reforming Lessons aims to defend his ministerial legacy, but instead reads like a desperate attempt to rewrite England’s education failures By Joe Hanley @joehanley.bsky.social

You do know PV work when it's cloudy and realistically how many times have you been out to sea and the wind hasn't been blowing? But thanks to some clever engineers other sources are switched on when on the few occurrences in one of the windiest countries in Europe there is no wind.

The death of truth and accuracy in the mainstream media Politicians and the media are distorting the truth; how can we avoid being duped? | Gary Gilligan @centralbylines.co.uk @garygilligan.bsky.social

Britain ran entirely on clean energy for 87 hours this year – a fiftyfold rise since 2021. Proof that progress is real, even if there’s a long road to 2030’s clean-power target. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @seththevoz.bsky.social @carbonbrief.org - with thanks.

Strengthening the institutions we rely on A new report finds that the UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation By Helen Johnston @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @hj4euinspain.bsky.social

✍️ Terrorism doesn’t work States and individuals who kill the innocent will reap the opposite of what they wanted By Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social

Transport as a long problem A consideration of transport as a long problem for policy makers in the UK westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/transpo...

A night of grace and defiance with Edwyn Collins At the Boiler Shop, the themes of resilience and love were palpable northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/musi...

Britain ran entirely on clean energy for 87 hours this year – a fiftyfold rise since 2021. Proof that progress is real, even if there’s a long road to 2030’s clean-power target. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @seththevoz.bsky.social @carbonbrief.org - with thanks.

The death of truth and accuracy in the mainstream media Politicians and the media are distorting the truth; how can we avoid being duped? | Gary Gilligan @centralbylines.co.uk @garygilligan.bsky.social

Having a major attraction in close proximity can affect house prices, in most cases increasing them, like is the case with Chester Zoo northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/eco...

My people are brave, but our dreams are shattered - A look into the struggles faced by the Al-Madhoun family in Gaza northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/hu...